FLRA NEWS

FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY · WASHINGTON, DC · 20424

August 19, 1996 · PR 114-96
Contact: Helenann Hirsch
202-482-6500

The Federal Service Impasses Panel today announced regulation changes aimed at providing easier access to its services and making its regulations more user-friendly. The changes, the first in over thirteen years to FSIP regulations, cover the:

• use of fax filing and private delivery services;
• authority of private arbitrators to address duty-to-bargain questions;
• range of options available to FSIP to resolve an impasse;
• prompt approval of joint requests for binding arbitration; and